物

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物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character[edit]

物 (radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 物
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
物-oracle.svg 物-silk.svg 物-seal.svg 物-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯd): semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular;
  • mih - vernacular (limited, e.g. 物仔, 啥物);
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Wu
    • Dialectal data▼
    Variety Location 物
    Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
    Harbin /u⁵³/
    Tianjin /u⁵³/
    Jinan /u²¹/
    Qingdao /vu⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
    Xi'an /vo²¹/
    Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /vu¹³/
    Lanzhou /və¹³/
    Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
    Wuhan /u²¹³/
    Chengdu /u³¹/
    Guiyang /u²¹/
    Kunming /u³¹/
    Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
    Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
    Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
    Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
    Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
    Suzhou /vəʔ³/
    /məʔ³/
    Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
    Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
    Hui Shexian /me²²/
    Tunxi /mə¹¹/
    /uə¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
    Xiangtan /u²⁴/
    Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
    Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
    Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
    Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
    Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /but̚⁵/
    /miʔ⁵/
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uʔ⁵/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /u²⁴/
    /o²⁴/ 新
    Shantou (Min Nan) /mueʔ⁵/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /vut̚³/
    /mi³³/
    Rime
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 明 (4)
    Final (韻) 物 (60)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 文弗切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/mɨut̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/miut̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/miuət̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/mut̚/
    Li
    Rong         		/miuət̚/
    Wang
    Li         		/mĭuət̚/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/mi̯uət̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		wù
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		wù
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ mjut ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*C.mut/
    English thing

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13218
    Phonetic
    component         		勿
    Rime
    group         		物
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		物
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mɯd/

    Definitions[edit]

    物

    1. thing, matter
      物體 / 物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
      動物 / 动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
    2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
    3. substance, content
    4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
    5. to choose, to select
    6. to seek, to look for
      物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
    7. (Teochew) to do
      家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
    8. † Alternative form of 勿 (wù).
    9. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 乜 (miē, “what”).

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 物

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    物
    もの
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mo2no2⟩ → ⟨mono2⟩ → /mono/

    From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana もの, rōmaji mono)

    1. thing (concrete, tangible)
      1. (law) a corporeal object
        • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
          この法律 (ほうりつ)において「物 (もの)」とは、有体物 (ゆうたいぶつ)をいう。
          Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
          The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
    See also[edit]
    • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

    Suffix[edit]

    物 (hiragana もの, rōmaji -mono)

    1. story, genre (type of story)
      探 (たん)偵 (てい)もののドラマ
      tantei-mono no dorama
      detective drama
      冒 (ぼう)険 (けん)ものです。
      Bōken-mono desu.
      It is an adventure story.

    Etymology 2[edit]

    /mono/ → /mon/

    Shift from mono above.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana もん, rōmaji mon)

    1. (informal) thing

    References[edit]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    物 (eumhun 물건 물 (mulgeon mul))

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    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    物 (vật)

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